This tele-strategy session (2 of 2) brings together grassroots communications practitioners with a commitment to justice issues and funders who support justice and social movement efforts in a rare opportunity to think together about opportunities and imperatives to strengthen communications as a tool for change that will substantively impact U.S. culture, consciousness, and political policies.

Join us to hear about these cutting edge strategies and more communications realities from across the country in the form of a panel: 

• Helen Brunner, Quixote Foundation and Media Democracy Fund (moderator)
• Karlos Guana Schmeider from Center for Media Justice 
• Patrick Reinsborough, smartMeme Training and Strategy Collective 
• Damekia Morgan for Community Media Organizing Project and Friends and Families of Louisana’s Incarcerated Children

More about the call: This is a time of unprecedented change for grassroots communications practitioners. Factors such as the current economic crisis, rampant media consolidation, emerging new media technology and shift in administration bring unique and urgent challenges and opportunities.

Faced with this changing communications landscape, grassroots justice organizations must make smart decisions about how to effectively communicate to advance their program and political work, often with fewer resources and confronted with changes in how media is made and news is communicated. These times demand whole new approaches to change making and communication. It’s no longer enough to win individual victories, we must fundamentally shift our social, cultural and political ecology.

This recording is 40 minutes long.